Li Dachunwei's "brave act for justice" stopped after punching "Huang Shiren" twice, because after being stunned for a few seconds, the male actor playing "Xi'er" rushed towards "Huang Shiren" with his teeth and claws bared and came to the rescue immediately. He can't do it anymore.
"Xi'er, I'm here to help Nen! Why is Nen still tickling me?"
He was dodging in a hurry and defending at the same time. At this time, people from the theater troupe also rushed out from the backstage. With the combined efforts of everyone, Li Dachun was pinned to the stage with three strikes.
"Second cousin, are you okay?" The male actor playing "Xi'er" leaned over and helped "Huang Shiren" up. He asked with concern and took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe the blood.
"My tooth fell out."
The male actor who played Xi'er didn't hear clearly, so he put his head in and asked again: "What did Nen say?"
"My front teeth fell out!"
"Oh!" Upon hearing this, Xi'er hurriedly shouted to the people on the stage: "Hey~~ Yang Ertang's tooth fell out, everyone helped to find it!"
This was originally a temporary stage, and there was no curtain, so seven or eight people on the stage began to bend over to find the front tooth, while the people in the audience just watched...
"Hey! Found it!" Suddenly, a guy squatting on the stage shouted, stretched out his hand and pulled out something from the crack of the board. Everyone came up to take a look, and they saw that it was really an incisor with blood stains on it. Woolen cloth.
Phew!
Suddenly, a woman in the third row of the audience couldn't hold it in anymore and covered her mouth and started giggling. Then all the men, women and children in the audience burst into laughter. I have never seen anything so interesting in all these years.
"Huang Shiren" felt angry and resentful in his heart. He covered his nose with a handkerchief, raised his head, glanced at Li Dachun's position, raised his foot and kicked Li Dachun hard, and then cursed with his front teeth: " You are a child of a maid! This is an opera, but it is not real. If you beat me like this, how can you explain it to my mother-in-law when you get home!"
Li Dachun had already woken up from his previous impulse. "Huang Shiren" kicked him right on the ribs, almost knocking him out of breath. I said in my heart that two punches are exchanged for one kick, and I admit it.
The troupe leader backstage was so angry that he let a bastard mess up a play. People around him didn't dare to speak. The junior actor who played Zhao Dachun hesitated for a moment, then said quietly: "Master, should we sing any more?"
"Sing!" The class leader said in his heart that if he didn't perform because of this matter, it would ruin the troupe's brand name if he didn't tell the story of the Beihai Navy men. Fortunately, there are no "Huang Shiren" scenes in the next three scenes, and there are not many lyrics in the eighth scene, so it can be dealt with by hiring a temporary replacement.
After experiencing a chaotic farce, the performance of "The White-Haired Girl" was not completed until dark. Because performing in the countryside was a task assigned by the Wendeng Military Control Commission and a special fund was allocated, the troupe did not have to ask for rewards from the audience.
The villagers dispersed laughing and joking, but the troupe could not return to Ninghai Prefecture County today. The troupe leader went to the Bao Zhang to discuss it, and everyone set up a bunk on the stage to spend the night tonight.
A few adobe bricks were built to build a stove, a fire was lit, a large aluminum pot was set up, and two buckets of water were fetched from the well in the village. After the water boiled, the noodles were finished and cut into noodles as thick as chopsticks.
While the white air was rising, the noodles were dropped from the pot. On another earthen stove, a large pot of seafood stew mixed with dried shrimps, dried razor clams, canned meat and cabbage leaves has been cooked. The frozen white fat and meat pieces were put into the pot, and soon the air around the stage was filled with the tangy aroma of animal fat, making everyone who smelled it salivate.
Several young men and idle men were attracted by the aroma, standing in the shadows more than 20 steps away and looking at it enviously, and the irritation flowed down the corners of their mouths in dissatisfaction.
"You guys don't want to go home, why are you doing this? Come on, let's go! Go home, everyone will be embarrassed."
Chief A, who had been invited to dinner by the class leader, came with a bag in his hand and a big black man behind him. It was Li Dachun who came on stage to beat someone in the afternoon.
At this moment, Li Dachun put his hands in his sleeves, hunched over, and his eyes soon fell on the big pot full of brine. After a while, his nostrils were blowing, his throat was shaking uncontrollably, and he was swallowing saliva. .
"Stay calmly here, Nen. When people come out, follow Mr. Liu's instructions and make amends with them."
"Uncle, don't worry."
"Oh~~ What a fucking treasure!"
The security chief left, and Li Dachun stood alone in the open space. When the noodles in the big pot are cooked, the person holding the spoon first asks someone to bring two bowls to the class leader and Chief A, and then calls on the others. More than twenty troupe members gathered around with bowls of hula. They first filled up half a bowl of noodles and then a spoonful of braised pork from another pot. Then they found a sheltered place to sit down and ate with great satisfaction. stand up.
Whenever someone walked by with a bowl full of noodles, Li Dachun unconsciously craned his neck to take a look. It's a pity that everyone in the troupe ignored him, especially the male actor who played "Xi'er", who even "hummed" when he passed by.
"Mom, these opera singers are really well fed."
While he was thinking about it blindly, he saw Yang Ertang, who was bruised and swollen, coming out from behind the stage with a big bowl. Li Dachun hurriedly got up and greeted him.
Although it was dark at this time, the bonfire used for heating in the open space was burning brightly, and a bright lantern hung beside the stage. Yang Ertang saw a dark shadow approaching from the corner of his eye. He turned around quickly and found that it was the guy who hit him in the afternoon. His face immediately drooped, he raised his hand and pointed at the other person and said: "What do you want to do! Don't come over here." !”
His injuries were actually not serious, but his front teeth were missing, which was a bit ugly, and his speech was still leaky. However, there are dental filling shops in Ninghai Prefecture County. Even if the tooth cannot be found, you can still get a new one.
The technology of dental fillings in ancient China has been around since the Tang Dynasty. The "New Materia Medica" records that it was made of white tin, silver thin and mercury, which can be regarded as the earliest amalgam dental filling technology. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the places where dental fillings were done in the market were called "dental filling shops", and dental fillings were not a problem.
Li Dachun waved his hands hurriedly and defended: "Second brother Yang, I came here with Wang Jia Chang, and I want to apologize to him. The next afternoon, Mr. Liu and Wang Jia Chang gave me a pout, and I knew I was wrong. I am just a fool, I'm sorry!" After saying that, he took his hands out of his sleeves and made a big bow to the other party.
Yang Ertang couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief when he saw this, and said: "Forget it, if I go to the theater again in the future, I won't do this."
"Hey!" Although Li Dachun agreed, he didn't move his feet and kept glancing a dozen steps away.
Although Yang Ertang kicked Li Dachun angrily in the afternoon, he was out of anger, but in fact he was not a bad person. So he hesitated and said, "Have you had your supper yet?"
Jiaodong people call eating "dai", which actually means "eating".
When Li Dachun heard this, he said sheepishly: "No, no. I am full and the whole family is not hungry."
Yang Ertang thought for a while, then turned around and looked around. He saw the male actor playing "Xi'er" squatting in front of the basin and washing the dishes slowly, so he said loudly: "Cui Cui, have you finished eating?"
"Yeah. What's wrong?"
"Land me the bowl of tenderness. Don't take a break (after a while) and I'll wash it for you."
As mentioned before, female actors were prohibited in the Qing Dynasty, so no matter what theater troupe, the male roles such as those in Tsing Yi and Hua Shan were played by men, and some male actors even had their feet bound since childhood. As a result, many male actors gave themselves a female name. Historically, the appearance of Kun Ling in the Qing Dynasty had to wait until after the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and they were not allowed to enter the background.
The person who plays "Xi'er" is also a master who pretends to be real. He has been raised as a girl since he was a child. He moves, sits and lies just like a girl. He is different from Wei Changsheng. The leader of Yehu looks like the real one on stage. When he takes off his makeup, he is a man with a hooked nose and swollen eyebrows. But when he takes off his makeup, he dresses like a girl, with eyebrows painted on. If it hadn't been for the repeated explanations by people in the troupe, Li Dachun would never have believed that the other party was a man.
After finishing a large bowl of braised noodles, Li Dachun was still unsatisfied. Unfortunately, there were only so many noodles. He greedily licked up all the residual soup and grease hanging on the wall of the bowl, then filled the bowl of noodle soup and drank it. A hard-working long-term worker like him hardly has enough to eat throughout the year except for the wheat harvest and New Year holidays. Although the Chinese New Year is coming soon, his family is bare, so it would be nice to eat a few sorghum noodles on New Year's Eve, so this meal of noodles is definitely an unexpected surprise for him.
While Yang Ertang was pulling noodles, he looked at Li Dachun next to him. Suddenly, he remembered what someone from the Ninghai Prefecture Military Control Commission had said before. Anyone who could introduce honest and dutiful villagers to serve as soldiers would be given five silver dollars per head. introduction fee. He rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "You are so good at eating, why not join the Bei Navy, the city is recruiting people."
"Be a soldier?" Li Dachun shook his head when he heard this. "Master Liu once said that a good man should not be a soldier if he does not make nails, and a good man should not be a soldier. I used to go to the beach with him to haul goods, but I have seen the soldiers of the Green Camp. I heard that they were not enough to eat even with the little salary, and they were all hungry. His eyes were glowing green."
"Tch~~" Yang Ertang said disdainfully: "Can the Green Camp compete with the Beihai soldiers? They can only run away in front of the Beihai soldiers! To tell the truth, when I was rehearsing in Wendeng, I cooked in the same pot with the Beihai soldiers. They ate it. It was a good time. We had meat every day, dry rice, white flour and pastry three times a day, which was enough. Even the county magistrate couldn’t live up to that."
"What are you talking about?" Li Dachun's saliva gushed out again.
"I'm sorry~~ Let's just say that our troupe are as reluctant to eat this canned meat as if it were a treasure, but even the Beihai soldiers are tired of eating it."
Li Dachun smiled apologetically and said, "Second brother is joking. How can you get tired of eating meat?"
"Nen, do you know how much money they get every month?" Yang Ertang handed the chopsticks in his right hand to his left, then stretched out his five fingers, turned it over again, and said, "This is the number!"
Li Dachun said: "One hundred cents? That's not much. I can still earn sixty cents a month by working part-time!"
"What a fat boy! It's ten white silver coins, which equals two taels of silver!"
"Pfft~~" Li Dachun almost choked on a mouthful of noodle soup and spurted it out. He hurriedly put the bowl on the ground and started counting with his fingers.
"Two taels of silver a month, isn't that ten...twenty...ha! I have enough money to build a house and marry a wife!"
Li Dachun slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Brother Yang, aren't you trying to trick me?"
Yang Ertang rolled his eyes and said, "What's the benefit of teasing me? I'll get punched by Nen again?"
"Hey, Second Brother Yang, I already apologized to you, why are you bringing this up?" Li Dachun scratched his head and said with a silly smile: "Second Brother, who did you say I was going to look for? I haven't even entered the state. Where is the city?"
Yang Ertang said: "Let's see. The troupe will return to Ninghai Prefecture City early tomorrow morning. If Nen wants to go, come over in the morning and help pack the cart. When we get to Prefecture City, I will take Nen to register at the Military Control Commission."
"Second brother, I will be thirty the day after tomorrow. Can this be done?"
"Why not? Tell me the truth, the gentlemen of the Beihai Navy don't have any rules about sealing during the New Year."
With these words, Li Dachun arrived at dawn the next day carrying a baggage, and he was not the only one who came, there were more than twenty people. These people were pushing several wheelbarrows, and some were carrying sticks.
Yang Ertang was quite excited at first, thinking that these people were all going to be soldiers. He thought that the punch was not in vain and could actually make a fortune. However, after asking Li Dachun, he found out that these villagers planned to go to the county town with the troupe to provide food relief.
"Nen is going to get food now? It will be thirty tomorrow!"
All the villagers did not say a word after hearing Yang Ertang's words. Instead, they helped the troupe load the things into the carriage so that they could get on the road quickly.
In the Qing Dynasty, the condition of cultivated land in Dengzhou Prefecture was very poor. People at the time described it as "Pyongyang without fifty miles", and it was the area with the most serious food shortage in Shandong. In good harvest years, there is not enough food to live on, let alone in times of famine. During the Qianlong period, as the population grew, the demand for food became more and more prominent. Every year, hundreds of thousands of stones of grain were imported from Fengtian via sea trade. Once the grain ship failed to arrive on time, there would immediately be a shortage of rice and food prices would rise.
Basically from the 52nd year of Qianlong's reign, with the expansion of the Qing Dynasty's military deployment in the Northeast, most of the food produced in Fengtian was sent to the Wula front line in Jilin, so the food in Dengzhou Prefecture could only be imported from the south of the Yangtze River. The problem is that Jiangnan does not produce sorghum, only rice, and the people in Dengzhou are not used to it. In addition, rice is more expensive than sorghum, so in recent years it has become normal for farmers to not have enough to eat.
After the Northern Navy occupied the four counties of Dengzhou, land and sea trade were cut off. Liu Yong intended to use this move to ask Beihai Town to quickly ship people away and then get out quickly.
However, the Manchu Qing's calculation was obviously wrong, and Beihai Town was well prepared for this. You must know that Longmen Port in the north of Ninghai Prefecture was one of the four largest ice-free ports in the world in later generations. From October 1793 to January 1794, the Civil Affairs Bureau, with the full cooperation of the navy, successively transported tens of thousands of tons of wheat from Beihai Town. .
Because of Li Bi's suggestion, Kong Shaoan decided to issue relief tickets to poor households in urban and rural areas through "household review". People can use the tickets to receive food in the county. In order to prevent what Li Bi called "demanding and extorting prices", the military control of the four counties did not use subordinate officials from the Manchu era. Instead, they sent work teams to the countryside to conduct household inspections based on the principle of "far first and then close".
The household review work in Chuiliu Village was completed as early as the end of November, but the villagers took the relief tickets and no one dared to touch them. You must know that under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it cost a certain amount of money to receive a relief ticket, and it also cost a certain amount of money to receive food after taking the relief ticket, otherwise you would not get a grain of food. Although the work team did not ask for money when distributing relief tickets, and they also said that they did not need to pay for food, but how could these rural people dare to believe it? They suffered too much from this!
Who doesn't know that the government has always been a fool since ancient times? Whoever wants to believe it is a fool!
We have been procrastinating like this for several days, and it seems that tomorrow will be the New Year's Eve. Many families in Chuiliu Village are already running out of food. If they don't receive relief, they will not be able to survive this year. So each family in the village gritted their teeth and scraped together half a sling of money, and then borrowed two slings from the landlord in the village before they dared to set off. As for going to Ninghai Prefecture with the troupe, the main reason is that I am worried about encountering disaster.
In later generations, the most well-known thieves in Shandong during the Ming and Qing Dynasties were "thieves". The reason for this name is that before launching a raid, these people would shoot a loud arrow equipped with a whistle. However, thieves in Shandong are generally concentrated in Linqing and Jining, where merchants are busy, while in Jiaodong area there are "old melon thieves" who are roaming around to commit crimes.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, those who were in charge of boxing, performing arts, and breaking horses were collectively called "guazi". Compared with thieves who only robbed money but not killed people, Laogua thieves were much more ruthless. They not only robbed goods, but also killed people. This group of guys specializes in pretending to be merchants and beggars, sneaking in and traveling, and their operations are always in remote and deserted villages.
After three generations of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong, the Manchu Qing Dynasty always regarded the management of the "Laogua thieves" in the five northern provinces as a priority for the people, and also established a relatively complete arresting system. However, as the North Navy captured the four counties of Jiaodong, as the two sides advanced and retreated, there was a vacuum in civil security, and the "Old Melon Thief" who had disappeared appeared again...
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